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Brooklyn’s Burlap to Cashmere took their modern folk-rock to the masses in 1998 with their Anybody Out There? — and followed up that Dove Award-winning effort with a nearly decade-long hiatus. In the time they’ve been away, a similar blend of worldly folk has made stars out of acts such as Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes.

With their new self-titled album — set for a July 19 release on Jive/Essential Records — BTC looks to reclaim that turf in top form, with an inspired blend of Mediterranean rhythms, rootsy textures and tight-knit harmonies, which lend the unmistakable air of folk-rock greats Simon & Garfunkel and Cat Stevens.

The band will preview some of this material Sunday, May 15, at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891). The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $10.

Nashville newcomer Daphne Willis gave her brand new album, Because I Can, a fitting title. It certainly answers one of our questions: “Why does she move from a saucy soul/funk gumbo to punchy pop/rock to VH1-ready piano balladry, all before the album’s halfway mark?”

Yep, because she’s bold and capable enough to do so, and to pour a passionate, expressive and endearingly vulnerable vocal performance into whatever backdrop she chooses.

Willis performs a now-hometown show at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891) on Sunday, May 8 with Idaho-bred singer/songwriter Korby Lenker. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $8.

Sisters Lily and Abigail Chapin come saddled with a few names worth dropping: They’re the nieces of lamented folk-rock great Harry Chapin, daughters of Grammy-winning songwriter Tom Chapin, and they spent much of last year singing backup for retro-pop stars She & Him.

The sisters strike out on their own in timeless style on their new album, Two, which deals in haunting, harmony-blessed folk, southern soul and chamber pop tunes.

They head to Nashville on Monday, April 4 for a show at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891). It starts at 6:30 p.m., and admission is $10.

Radio station Lightning 100 WRLT celebrates its 21st birthday next week, and independent-minded music venue 3rd & Lindsley celebrates its 20th at the same time. All of this birthdaying will come to a head on Tuesday, March 29 with a multi-artist show at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S.).

Laidback rocker Bob Schneider’s taking it easy these days. The Austin, Texas,-based performer’s latest album, A Perfect Day, is a collection of chilled-out tunes inspired by a day spent cruising around the state’s Lake Travis.

Schneider is joined at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891) by local singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin, who’s currently at work on the follow-up to her 2008 album, Firesight.

Planning on making some snide remark about the singer for Australian ‘80s rockers Men at Work needing some actual work these days? Go ahead and skip it. Colin Hay’s been doing just fine since the days of “Down Under,” “Who Can It Be Now” and “Overkill.”

In addition to Men at Work’s own successful reunions, he’s been a regular member of Ringo Starr’s “All Starr Band.” Another famous friend — actor Zach Braff — put Hay’s "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" on his Grammy-winning Garden State soundtrack.

Hay cut a good chunk of his last album, American Sunshine, in Nashville. His next, Gathering Mercury, hits stores on March 29.

He returns to Nashville to perform at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891), at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 6. Tickets are $20.

Gabrahm Vitek will be part of the Battle on 3rd at 3rd & Lindsley on Dec. 13 (photo: Melissa Madison Fuller).

There’s just one final slot up for grabs for the Jan. 10 championships of 3rd & Lindsley’s weekly band-battle tournament, Battle on 3rd. Local rockers Gabrahm Vitek, the Compromise and another TBA contender will compete for that spot on Monday, Dec. 13.

The winner will face off against Jeffrey James and The Future for a prize package of gear, gigs and promotion valued at $10,000.

The show starts at 7 p.m. at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891). Admission is free.

It makes sense that Mikky Ekko, one of the Nashville non-country scene’s boldest, most wildly expressive vocalists, has continually made his versatile pipes the main attraction on his series of short-length releases.

On this year’s REDS EP, you’ll be smitten with a baroque, a cappella passage one moment and ensnared in a sea of chants the next. Ekko still takes the lead among all this overdubbing, veering from Jeff Buckley’s croon to Thom Yorke’s tremble to Animal Collective’s tribalism.

Ekko plays a hometown show on Sunday, Nov. 28 at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891). It starts at 8 p.m., and admission is $10.

John Oates — best known as one half of “Yacht Rock” hitmakers Hall & Oates — will join Donavon Frankenreiter at his Nashville concert on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 3rd & Lindsley (818 Third Ave. S., 259-9891).

Frankenreiter, a professional surfer turned laid-back rock artist, is touring in support of his new album, Glow. Oates recently wrapped up work on a new, ’50s rock-inspired album, Johnny O, in Nashville.

The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $19 ($20 with a CD copy of Glow).